Brain activity

	Men look at face, women look down there
...xual acts first and men would pay their attention at faces. Previous study, published in Hormones and Behavior magazine concluded that sexual stimuli outlines gender differences, particularly for brain activity of men and women. Presumably women who took hormonal pills were more often focused on genitals and those who took no pills paid their attention to the context of the picture. Although it is known that men would...
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	Compliments and Money Give the Same Satisfaction
...he brain called striatum. The findings of the study prove that boosting one's reputation gives a person psychological reward. During a study, 19 people took part in the experiments where their brain activity was monitored with the help of fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) method. In the first experiment, participants were offered to play a gambling game in which a person could receive a cash reward. ...
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	What Keeps Us from Making the Same Mistake All Over Again
...n we discover that our suggestion was wrong, our brain is focused to learn the right answer. Now scientists managed to register the brain response to the incorrect action. Psychologists monitored brain activity with the help of electrophysiological recordings to find the exact time when the mechanism signaling us of mistake starts in. Participants were given several computer tasks to solve. First, they had to make...
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	Device to Predict Your Mistakes To be Developed Soon
... Scientists found that it is possible to predict if a person is going to make a mistake, monitoring the brain activity. The study conducted by Dr Tom Eichele of Norway's University of Bergen and his colleagues in UK, Germany and the US showed that human errors are not the result of momentary changes in brain activity and concentration. It is more likely to be a signal from the brain that tells that little break from mo...
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